HORT 2050 Exam 1 lsu Questions And Answers

HORT 2050 Exam 1 lsu Questions And Answers hortus - ANS garden culture - ANS cultivation Hort - ANS science and art of cultivating processing and marketing fruits, vegetables, and ornamental plants. botany - ANS pure plant science 3 main plant production in hort? - ANS Fruits, Vegetables, and Ornamental pomology - ANS apple or fruit Biggest production in Louisiana? - ANS Pecans Vegetable Production - ANS * Olericulture "Pot Herb" * Nursery industry - ANS - growing plants outside * Greenhouse Industry - ANS - growing plants inside * Arboriculture - ANS - trees which * Turf Production - ANS growing sod Gymnosperms - ANS (conifers) 200-150,000,000 years. * Pines, furs, spruces, etc. * Use mainly air to pollinate themselves * Seed found in cones, produce seeds, and narrow needle-like leaf structure Angiosperms - ANS (flowering) 70-60,000,000 years * Roses, cucumbers, hibiscus, etc. * Interact with insects and animals for them to help pollinate. Father of horticulture - ANS > Liberty Hyde Bailey > If plants ceased to exist would animals and humans survive? - ANS no we would die if animals ceased to exist would plants survive? - ANS * Yes, Some plants would survive (Gymnosperms) but most of the Angiosperms would die. * The plants would survive because of * Photosynthesis + Energy from the sun * 6CO2 + 6H2O = C6H12O6 + 6O2 What do plants provide humans? - ANS * Food & Vital Link in the Food Chain * Oxygen * Fossil Fuels * Erosion Control * Wood and Lumber Products * Textiles (cotton) * Drugs and Medicine * Latex, Pitch, Oils, Perfumes & Spices. 3 ways to classify and name plants - ANS -Scientific and botanical systems -operational systems -Scientific classification Scientific and botanical systems - ANS * Kingdoms * Binomial Nomenclature operational systems - ANS * Seasonal Growth Cycles * Stem structure s * Cytology - ANS - cell type * Anatomy - ANS internal structures * Physiology - ANS - Plant functions * Morphology - ANS - Structural form > Taxonomic Groups - ANS * Monera * Protista * Fungi * Animalia * Plantae * Division, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. Bryophytes - ANS * Liverworts, Hornworts and Mosses Vascular Plants - ANS * Seedless * Ferns, Club Mosses, Horsetails. seeded - ANS * Pinophyta * Magnoliophyta Pinophyta - ANS Gymnosperm Magnoliophyta - ANS Angiosperm Plant families - ANS * Contain similar morphological characteristics